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So I think Cypher does this = And in a way that the Players always get to act, so no GM rolling vs GM garbage. Example = Cypher has 3...
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We had a friend of many years pass. He ran Deadlands as his main game, so we run his adventure once a year and enjoy the memory of him...
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Here is a link to the FF8 game we made (link), so you can see the questions within the context of that game. * Each game we do this for...
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I've often used a minigame affected by character skills for resolving gambling. It's really quite simple... Mind you, this was for CT...
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The problem I always have when I try to come up with TTRPG rules for another game is that at some point I just either want to just play...
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Yup! And sometimes they gain enough to get an advancement and sometimes they need to save up a little more first. Then they spend...
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We would like to include Triple Triad (link) into this game... As a full card game it would be too much... but we want it maybe as a...
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So we don't really care about XP tracking, but we don't find any value in arbitrary advance either. So the purpose of what we have...
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Well, in your favor = i was not talking about Mage the Ascension... You see, that is "old world of darkness", not "new world of...
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Looking at the number of steps in isolation is not very meaningful, especially as how to break them down into steps is (perhaps...
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I think it has first and foremost to do with = how easy and simple are the steps. And then equally importantly, how good is the...
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If you are talking about being able to spend pool After the roll = I 100% agree. We moved to that rule and players have a lot more...
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Oh hey I might be able to help with that... Although... I'm not 100% sure what you mean by "use minimum effort"??? I am of the...
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Well.... so we left/let Intrusions to occur only on a roll of 1 (GM) or 20 (Player who rolled.) And so it happens 5% ish of the time...
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We noted down a list of things any character can do with a player Intrusion. And each Archetype gets their own Intrusions. The GM gets...
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